River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-29
WISCO SSIN NEWS.

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The water in Lake Winnebago is
1881.
A ll-month-old baby in Grant county
only weighs four and thFee quarters
pounds.
Mason auckland. cf Fox Lake, has
fallen heir to So, 800 left by an uncle
in California
Sheboygan pays an annual rental Of
$50 for each fire hydrant Fon du
Lac pays $50.
Hylen Morse, of Johnstown Center.
Rock county, died recently from car
buncle on the back of the neck.
The Ozaukee County Mailing COM
pany of Port Washington. is receiving
about 5000 bushels of barley daily.
While j. j. Favian was hunting in the
vicinity of his home near Sparta. his
gun exploded and DESTROYED his left
hand.
The clothing and gentlemen's fur
niShing store of Donovan Bros. of
Waupun, has been closed on attach
mentS.
The reflection of the fire which de-
stroyed the Minneapolis saw-mills. re-
Gently, was seen at Osceola. Polk
county.
The Milwaukee. Lake Shore 4 West
ern railroad has bought a large tract of
land at Wausau upon which it will
erect a new depot
c. \. Davenport. of Wautoma. was
announced as dead ~ The Waushara
Argus. He comes back at the paper in
a comical manner.
During the progress of a thunder
storm, last week, lightning struck the
| Hayward depot, doing considerable
damage, but injuring no one.
1t is now a settled fact that the Mil
waukee 4 Northern Railway company
will build hotel at Ellis Junction, to
cost between $4,000 and $4,000.
The name of Cosgrove Station, Bar
ron county. has been changed to Pos
kin Lake. The postoflice is still Cos
/ grove, but viii soon be char ged to Pos
kin Lake.
John Diedrich. of Port Washington.
was thrown out of a buggy by its run
ming into an open culvert, and he suf-
fered the fracture of the shoulder-blade
and two ribs.
The common council of Milwaukee
has decided to abolish the dog pound.
1t was found impossible to handle the
dog question and. the river nuisance at
the same time.
George Robinson, of Gibson, Mantle
voc county, was caught under a stump
which he was removing with a stump
puller and his head was crushed. kill
ing him instantly.
Mr.. Theodore Van Bree and Miss
Lena Bohn. daughter of Assistant
hire-Marshal Bohn, of Racine were
married at St. Joseph's church. Racine
A brilliant reception followed.
Wabasha, Mimi. business men are
bestirring themselves To get a road
across the Wisconsin bottoms, expect
ing thereby TO draw large trade from
the east side of the Miss ssippi.
Wisconsin ranks twelfth among the
states of the union in tie number of
newspapers regularly taken by the peo-
| pie. The estimated circulation within
the state is 354,250 copies OF each
edition.
The Wisconsin school for the blind
opened this year with the largest at
| tendance ever known-about eighty
pupils. and this number will beincreas-
ed to nearly 100 before the end of the
mouth.
The city council Richland Center,
has contracted with the Silsby manu-
featuring company, of Seneca Falls
n. Y, for the purchase of steam fire
engine. The steamer is to be delivered
here within twenty-five days, from date
of contract.
Some two months ago a girl named
Anna Kolaus, of the town of Rochester,
Racine county, was arrested on
charge of having deposited her illegiti-
mite child in a vault. The evidence
not being sufficient to convict, the east.
has been dismissed.
Beginning with the first dav of Octo-
Der, the Chicago. Milwaukee & St
Paul company will run its passenger
train into TOmahawk, the new town at
the junction of the Tomahawk and Wis
consin rivers, which has already risen
to the dignity of possessing four general
stores and thirteen saloons
c. Il. Roberts, of Kewaunee, met
with painful accident Tuesday even
ing. While closing awindow a needle
which was sticking in the casing, was
driven into his wrist and broke of.
about half the needle remaining i'm
bedded in the flesh in such position
that physicians have been unable to ex-
tract it.
A Baraboo saloon man recently sued
customer for $94 liquor bill. The
customer swore he did not owe the bill
because the liquor was sold him on
Sunday and while he was s'postedn
The dealer lost the suit, after which
the city marshal, on this evidence, pros
ecuted him for unlawful, selling on
two indictments. This is another ease
of misplaced confidence mistake. ia
fact.
Besides the berries they have gathered,
Rice 81 Sons. a cranberry firm Of Grants
burg, have sold 81, 600 worth of goods
TO the pickers since the season opened.
Indians are great lovers ofwatermelons-
as much so probably as the negroes.
and from 500 to 700 have been sold 10
them by this same firm within the past
three weeks. The merchants have
bought but few berries as vet from the
settlers and others who have picked
from wild marshes, the price being 50
lOw-from 81 to $1.25-they are hold
ing them for higher figures.
The Sank County News, of Prairie
du Sac, describes curiosity which was
captured in Fremont Avery's corn-field.
1t is small tortoise, Of peculiar pattern.
1t differs from the ordinary turtle in
many ways. The shell is marked with
clam-shaped scales, and it is prov ided
with a nicely-arranged self-acting trap
door, and unless you have the combine
ton it cannot be opened. The every
day Inud-turtle can draw in his head.
but cannot close up the hole, but this
one is different, for whenever it draws
in its head. the hole is pulled in after
it. and the trap-dOOr closed.
1--WE will come out just even.7 says
Secretary T. L. Newton. of the State
Agricultural society. Awhile. of course.
it is net very pleasant to start in new
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